On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > No, you do not need a mailbox for each mailing list.
Jeff, That's what I suspected; thank you for confirming this. > No, not really. When you created the mailing list on mailman, did you > use the web interface or command line script "newlist"? The Web interface. And I read and followed the mailman-admin document, accepting most defaults. > If you used the command line script "newlist", it would have listed 10 > entries that need to be placed in the /etc/aliases file. Once those > are added to the file, the admin is supposed to run "newaliases" so > that the mailman server is aware of the mailing lists. Here is an > example of what those ten lines would look like: > > ## cvsnotify mailing list > cvsnotify: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe cvsnotify" > cvsnotify-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe cvsnotify" > > These just need to be put on in the /etc/aliases file on the mailman server. Wow! That's great. I'll pass this on to my ISP but they'll probably need to wait for the Mailman-guru admin to return from vacation. Thanks very much for the information, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
